• NineSwords@ani.socialM
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    1 month ago

    Yeah, I would say it’s around volume 28 when it started to get sloppy. The cover for 29 was okay again, so I thought it was just a one-off thing, but 30 and now 31 are just sloppy.

    And the insight illustrations aren’t faring much better. Here is Rimee Ruu in volume 31 and 3.

    Rimee Ruu Volume 31

    Rimee Ruu Volume 3

    Everything is just off-model and that’s especially jarring when you have read a series for such a long time. A series that excells at making the reader care for the characters.

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        1 month ago

        A third person sitting in front of the girl, leaning forward with the head and arm cut off by the image crop. At least that would be be my interpretation of the picture without any context.

        • I2jgwh0hYtxrCZQ@lemmy.sdf.orgM
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          1 month ago

          How did I look at it for so long and never notice! I thought it was a blanket around her.

          It’s where’s Waldo all over again. I couldn’t even find him on the front cover.

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            1 month ago

            To be fair, the crop is unusual. My hint was that it looked like a stagecoach, and I didn’t see anyone holding the reins.

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            1 month ago

            Holy shit, I didn’t see it either. Very unusual crop. And. ade worse by the fact that the 3rd leg looks very much like the 2nd leg and the shirt is very plain and definitely could read as a blanket or shaw.